39 Shiite worshippers killed in attack.
By on Mar 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
39 Shiite worshippers killed in attack.
Today, a female suicide bomber “blew herself up” amid a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala, killing at least 39 people and wounding 54.” The attack was just half a mile away “from the Imam Hussein shrine, one of the holiest sites for Shiites.”
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What a nice stable democracy we’ve installed there in Iraq. And the surge is obviously working like a charm. Yup yup yup.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:00 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
This is obviously a sure sign of a democracy.
It’s just voter caging, Sunni-style.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:04 pmWhat’s a few suicide bombers and multitudes of dead bodies between friends ?
March 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pmBut…but…Emperor Wannabe McCain took a stroll by there just yesterday and proclaimed it safe.
When does the Tooth Fairy show up, again?
March 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pmOff Topic:
Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has joined a growing list of those pushing to privatize VA healthcare.
http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfMAR08/nf031208-6.htm
No doubt KBR will get the contract.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI have to think a female suicide bomber has to be really pissed because I don’t think she’s doing it for the promise of virgins in the afterlife.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm“They’re in their last throes”
~ Darth Cheney or McSame (take your pick)
March 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pmGood point Shayne! What was her “reward” do you suppose?
March 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pmI have to think a female suicide bomber has to be really pissed because I don’t think she’s doing it for the promise of virgins in the afterlife.
Maybe she was a lesbian.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:15 pmI wonder how many of these female suicide bombers are retaliating after having their husbands killed.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:15 pmmary Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Good point Shayne! What was her “reward” do you suppose?
Not having to spend another day in the sewage-filled, cholera-infested, ethnically-cleansed, insecure, unstable hell hole we created for her in Iraq.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pmmary Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Good point Shayne! What was her “reward” do you suppose?
An existence in an after-life where you can wear a bathing suit instead of a burlap sack ………..
March 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm…the Imam Hussein shrine…
hussein must be a name like smith or jones is here…
March 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pmmaybe?
I found this (for what it’s worth):
“very (sic) man will have six dozen huris in heaven, but very few commentators enumerated the rewards for women. Ninth-century scholar Al-Tabarani did argue that women will be reunited with their husbands in the next world, and those who had multiple husbands can pick the best one to be their eternal spouse. (Other commentators added that a woman who never married can marry any man she wants in paradise.)”
So it sounds like tao might be (unfortunately) on to something there at #12
March 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pmAnd we’re making such strides in Iraq. The surge is a success! General Patreus will give a wonderful report in another 6 months. We need to stay and cheer for the big win! Now let’s go shopping for some rugs.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pmDriven to violence
Maha is a Sunni. Until a year ago, she was living with her husband and extended family in Baghdad. Her life quickly collapsed. Her husband moved to Syria, like many here to look for work and safety. Then a Shiite militia group — she says the Mahdi Army — killed her two brothers and burned her home. Maha became a refugee and moved in with other relatives in another Baghdad neighborhood. That’s when she was recruited.
“A neighbor saw that I was depressed and I told him I was so angry I could blow myself up,” she said.
“There are groups that can help you do that,” the neighbor said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/17/iraq/main3942256.shtml#ccmm
March 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pmkaty Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
…the Imam Hussein shrine…
hussein must be a name like smith or jones is here…
maybe?
Hussein is a common Arabic name, yes. But Imam Hussein ibn Ali is the grandson of the prophet Muhammad a rather significant figure in Shia Islam. In fact, he’s the origin of the Shia branch of Islam, and the Imam Hussein mosque in Karbala’ is where he died in battle against the Ummayad Khaliphate and is now buried.
It also means “little beauty.” :)
March 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pmIt’s the signs of an Iraqi “surge”!!!
March 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pmmary Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
This is the correct link for Mary’s quote:
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/04/11/130780.aspx
March 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pmDoes everyone realize that 100 more years is close to 200 Freidman’s?
March 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pmThanks WaltTheMan!
xo
March 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pmYour husband has been killed by Shia , your children blown up by Shia your the only one left of your whole family , you cannot take the pain and the hurt anymore , would you not become a suicide bomber to get revenge and stop the misery your in
Yes ,
killing innocent families only creates suiced bombers
Stop the violence MR BUSH
March 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pmAnother thing the Iraqis are undoubtedly thankful for regarding their “liberation” by Bush Jr, all those poor oppressed suicide and car bombers so ruthlessly suppressed by the Hussein regime
Perhaps in Bizarroworld, W’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein “was the right call, now and for all time”, but here in the real world, that decision was forever wrong, discredited, debunked and just plain sucks
If “spreading democracy” is the latest meme from the lunatic warmongers still backing this occupation, when will the US “liberate” Chechnya and Tibet from their Evil Russian & Chinese Overlords?
March 17th, 2008 at 4:06 pmThe surge is working!
March 17th, 2008 at 4:27 pmmary Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Thanks WaltTheMan!
xo
Feeling horny?, Do not worry. I am committed (40 years on 4/6/2008).
March 17th, 2008 at 7:15 pmWow, this news is surgerrific!
March 17th, 2008 at 7:49 pmThe Dickster thinks this is improvement…maybe the number of suicide bombings is down!
March 17th, 2008 at 10:37 pm